North Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency)

North Cumberland
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1918–1950
Number of members one
Replaced by Penrith and The Border
Created from Eskdale and Penrith

North Cumberland (also "Cumberland Northern")[1][2] was a parliamentary constituency in Cumberland which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system of election.

The constituency was created for the 1918 general election, and abolished for the 1950 general election.

Boundaries

The Urban Districts of Holme Cultram and Wigton, the Rural Districts of Brampton, Carlisle, and Longtown, and part of the Rural District of Wigton.

Members of Parliament

YearMemberWhip
1918 Christopher Lowther Unionist
1921 Independent Parliamentary Group
1922 Donald Howard Unionist
1926 Sir Fergus Graham Unionist
1935 Wilfrid Roberts Liberal
1950 Constituency abolished

Election results

Election in the 1910s

General Election 14 December 1918: Cumberland North[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Hon. Christopher William Lowther unopposed n/a n/a
Unionist win

Election in the 1920s

General Election 1922: Cumberland North [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard 8,815 50.8 n/a
Liberal Hon. Geoffrey William Algernon Howard 8,544 49.2 n/a
Majority 271 1.6 n/a
Turnout 79.9 n/a
Unionist hold Swing n/a
General Election 1923: Cumberland North [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard 9,288 50.6 -0.2
Liberal Richard Durning Holt 9,070 49.4 +0.2
Majority 218 1.2 -0.4
Turnout 83.2 +3.3
Unionist hold Swing -0.2
General Election 1924: Cumberland North [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Hon. Donald Stirling Palmer Howard 10,586 54.2 +3.6
Liberal Richard Durning Holt 6,821 34.9
Labour B. Brooke 2,125 10.9 n/a
Majority 3,765 19.3
Turnout 86.0 +2.8
Unionist hold Swing
North Cumberland by-election, 1926 [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Frederick Fergus Graham 8,867 47.8 -6.4
Liberal Richard Durning Holt 6,871 37.1 +2.2
Labour H. W. McIntyre 2,793 15.1 +4.2
Majority 10.7
Turnout 82.0
Unionist hold Swing
General Election 1929: Cumberland North [3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Unionist Frederick Fergus Graham 10,392 44.9
Liberal Richard Durning Holt 9,661 41.7
Labour C. A. O'Donnell 3,092 13.4
Majority 731 3.2 -7.5
Turnout 83.7
Unionist hold Swing

Elections in the 1930s

General Election 1931: Cumberland North[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Conservative Frederick Fergus Graham 12,504 52.7
Liberal Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts 11,277 47.3
Majority 1,277 5.4
Turnout 84.6
Conservative hold Swing
General Election 1935: Cumberland North[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts 12,521 51.9
Conservative Sir Frederick Fergus Graham 11,627
Majority
Turnout 83.9 -0.7
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing

General Election 1939/40:

Another General Election was required to take place before the end of 1940. The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place from 1939 and by the end of this year, the following candidates had been selected;

Election in the 1940s

General Election 1945: Cumberland North[3]
Party Candidate Votes % ±
Liberal Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts 12,053 50.4
Conservative Ronald Nicholson Carr 11,855 49.6
Majority 198 0.83
Turnout 75.7
Liberal hold Swing

References

  1. ↑ Cumberland Northern PDivCon Vision of Britain
  2. ↑ MPs for Cumberland Northern Hansard Millbank
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, Craig
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